Last Picnic with Circus Elephants Set for Wednesday

Last Picnic with Circus Elephants Set for Wednesday

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A family-favorite Charleston event will end its 18-year run next
week.

The final Pachyderm Picnic will be Wednesday at the Charleston
Town Center mall, the business announced on its Facebook page.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey brings its touring circus to the
capital city next week for four days of performances. The circus'
parent company, Feld Entertainment, announced last year that it
would retire its elephants by 2018 and relocate them to the
company's Center for Elephant Conservation, in central Florida, but
shortly after the first of the year, it was reported that the circus
instead would end all elephant acts this month.

Town Center Marketing Director Lisa McCracken had told the
Gazette-Mail in January that the feeding, scheduled for 5:30 p.m.,
would be held one last time while the circus is in town. …